• Collection Times: Tuesday (except holidays)
• Collection Places: At your curb
• Recycling Tips

Waste Management has agreed to begin the use of their 'Single Stream Recycling Truck' in CCV (before the new toter recycling bins are delivered in early December).   Below is information that will help answer some of the many questions I have received. 

To order your container, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO Jana Coe at ccviewmanager@verizon.net.  Please specify if you want the 48-gallon or the 64-gallon recycling container.  (Refer to the order form included in the recent CCV mailing).   Please add your name/address.

Single Stream Recycling

Waste Management, the waste and recycling collection contractor for the Town of Chevy Chase View, will begin using a process called “Single Stream Recycling”. This is a technology that allows us to place all our recyclables—such as fiber (newspaper, office paper and cardboard) and non-fiber (plastic bottles, steel, glass and aluminum cans)—into a single container for subsequent collection, processing and remarketing.  There’s no sorting of materials into separate bins and no use of multiple collection vehicles. When Waste Management first starting doing this—throwing all the recyclables together in the back of a packer truck—some residents questioned whether the “stuff” was really being recycled or if it was just going to the transfer station, pretending to be recycled. It was then that we found out that a new single stream recycling plant owned and operated by Waste Management had come on line.

How does it work?

Recent improvements in automated sorting and screening technologies have made it possible to cleanly separate a wide variety of material streams coming from a single source.  Even fiber products –which previously needed to be manually source-separated from other recyclables to avoid costly contamination- can now be part of a Single Stream Recycling program thanks to processing innovations that significantly reduce paper contamination levels.  Ongoing improvements in this technology will improve the economic viability of Single Stream Recycling programs.

What difference will the new toter recycling containers make?

The simplicity of a single cart and the program’s ability to accommodate a wider range of materials has allowed communities with single stream recycling to collect, on average, 30 percent more recyclables compared to previous dual or multi-stream programs. There are fewer trucks on the road, resulting in less traffic and wear and tear to pavement, lower fuel and labor costs, extended landfill life and lower overall community costs.

This enhanced recycling system will allow us to recycle more, particularly when these new larger, lidded and wheeled recycling bins are delivered in early December.      

Unacceptable Fiber and Paper

Since so much IS acceptable in the recyclable bin we thought it would be easier to list what is not recyclable:

• Used paper towels, tissues
• Used paper plates, cups, etc.
• Metallic wrapping paper
• Wax paper, laminated paper
• Any paper contaminated with food waste
• Loose shredded paper (must be contained in one tied or sealed bag)

Unacceptable Non-Fiber

• Styrofoam (cups, plates, bowls, to-go containers and foam packing material of any kind)
• Materials contaminated with food waste/grease
• Trash/Food Waste
• Colored plastic film (such as candy or food wrappers or bags, colored plastic bags)
• Loose plastic film must be contained within one bag
• Plastic Cutlery (forks, knives spoons)
• Non-container glass (cookware, plate glass)
• Motor oil containers
• Construction and Demolition material
• Wood
• Vinyl siding